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The Impact Of Academic Advising On The Retention Of First-Year Students In A Gulf-Arab University, Selma Hagahmed

College of Education and Human Sciences: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research

This study investigated academic advising and retention in a Gulf-Arab university. Quantitative and qualitative data were gathered in order to understand how academic advising could have potentially contributed to the improvement of student retention. The focus of the study was on first-year students in the College of Business and Economics and the College of Law in a Gulf-Arab national four-year institution. The study compared the Grade Point Average (GPA) and the number of credit hours in two groups of first-year students: 1) a treatment group of students who utilized academic advising services and (2) the control group of students who …

Kyle Osmon To Present Sophomore Recital At Ouachita Oct. 24, Ouachita News Bureau

Press Releases

Ouachita Baptist University’s Division of Music will host Kyle Osmon in his sophomore musical theatre recital Friday, Oct. 24. The recital will be held in Mabee Fine Arts Center’s McBeth Recital Hall and is free and open to the public.

New Student Orientation, August 20-24, Sarah Gardner, Dave Albee

Press Releases

Dominican’s orientation team has designed a program to help students get to know each other, become more familiar with campus, learn about Dominican’s history and unique traditions, and have a great time starting their college experience.

Student Broadcaster Leads Pro Baseball Telecasts, Sarah Gardner, Dave Albee

Press Releases

Surrounded by bunting and a sellout crowd, Swan was sitting behind a microphone with a TV camera to his right ready to call play-by-play for a live television broadcast of the San Rafael Pacifics’ independent minor league season-opening game on June 3. Figuratively speaking, he was about to hit a home run in his young broadcasting career as the lead announcer in professional baseball.

Student Attitude And Gender In Relation To Student Participation In Physical Activity, Kayla Steber

Mahurin Honors College Capstone Experience/Thesis Projects

The purpose of this research project was to determine how student gender and attitude toward physical activity correspond to student participation in physical activity in and outside the after-school program setting. Surveys were administered to parents and the lead counselor of five different after-school programs located in the south-central part of the United States. Surveys were used for data collection about student attitude and physical activity. The lead counselor at each site provided information regarding number of students in the program and the percent of students who were physically active at the after-school program. The parent survey gathered information on …

Ouachita Honors Student Achievements At Annual Academic Awards Banquet, Taylor Tomlinson, Ouachita News Bureau

Press Releases

More than 100 students from Ouachita Baptist University were recently honored at the university's 2014 Academic Awards Banquet. The event recognized various academic and leadership achievements of the students throughout the past year.

Department Of Theatre Arts To Present One-Act Play Festival May 1-2, Taylor Tomlinson, Ouachita News Bureau

Press Releases

Ouachita Baptist University's Department of Theatre Arts will host its student-directed One-Act Play Festival on Thursday and Friday, May 1-2, at 8 p.m. in Verser Theatre. The performances are free and open to the public.

Caitlin Secrest To Present Senior Recital April 23 At Ouachita, Taylor Tomlinson

Press Releases

Ouachita Baptist University's Division of Music will present Caitlin Secrest in her senior voice recital Wednesday, April 23, at 8 p.m. The recital, which is free and open to the public, will be held in Mabee Fine Arts Center's McBeth Recital Hall.

Coles' "Off The Wall" Graphic Design Exhibit To Open April 21 At Ouachita, Bethany Peevy, Ouachita News Bureau

Press Releases

Ouachita Baptist University will host Emily Coles' senior art exhibit, "Off the Wall," in Mabee Fine Arts Center's Hammons Gallery from April 21 to May 1. A reception will be held April 21 at 5 p.m. in the gallery. The exhibit is free and open to the public.

Connell And Oakes Senior Exhibit, "Back," To Open In Hammons Gallery April 14, Chelsea Whelpley, Ouachita News Bureau

Press Releases

Ouachita Baptist University will host Michael Connell and Adam Oakes' senior exhibit, "Back," in Mabee Fine Arts Center's Hammons Gallery from April 14 to 24. The exhibit is free and open to the public.

School Psychologists' Experiences With Teacher-To-Student Mistreatment, Sharon Lyles

Doctoral Dissertations and Projects

The purpose of this qualitative, transcendental, phenomenological study was to describe school psychologists' experiences with teacher-to-student mistreatment in the Pre-Kindergarten through Grade 12 educational setting. There are few United States studies presented in the literature on the topic of teacher-to-student mistreatment and its significant negative impact on students from either the teacher or student viewpoint, but no research has been conducted on this issue from the school psychologist's perspective. The central research question addressed by the study was this: What are school psychologists' experiences with teacher-to-student mistreatment? Members of the Virginia Academy of School Psychologists (VASP) and Virginia school psychologists, …

Jackson, Scorza & Stanage To Present Recitals April 4 At Ouachita, Ouachita News Bureau

Press Releases

Ouachita Baptist University’s Division of Music will host three student recitals April 4 in Mabee Fine Arts Center’s McBeth Recital Hall. Sean Jackson and Courtney Stanage will present junior piano recitals at 11 a.m., and Kenderick Scorza will present his sophomore musical theatre recital at 2 p.m. The recitals are free and open to the public.

Caitlin Secrest Wins Ouachita's 16th Annual Shambarger Competition, Bethany Peevy, Ouachita News Bureau

Press Releases

Caitlin Secrest, a senior vocal performance major from Arkadelphia, Ark., was awarded first place in Ouachita Baptist University's 16th annual Mary Shambarger Competition for Singers on Feb. 25.

Circle Center Adult Day Services, Lindsey Naylor

Division of Community Engagement Resources

This presentation produced by Lindsay Naylor, student at Virginia Commonwealth University, reflects on her experience in a service-learning course.

My Service Learning Experience, Destiny Brazeal

Division of Community Engagement Resources

This presentation produced by Destiny Brazeal, student at Virginia Commonwealth University, reflects on her experience in a service-learning course.

Middle Level Learning: Compendium Of Research And Best Practice, Jesse Senechal, Jk Stringer

MERC Publications

Young adolescence is a time of important transition. It is a time when youth strive to define themselves as individuals while at the same time establishing their relationship within social groups. It is a developmental period characterized by curiosity and exploration. From a certain perspective, these qualities of young adolescents seem to be a good match for school settings. Schools might offer the social spaces for establishing individual and group identity and the academic space that harnesses curiosity and allows youth to find direction as they move toward high school, college and career.

And yet, middle grades education – that …

Recovering Knowledge For Science Education Research: Exploring The "Icarus Effect" In Student Work, Helen Georgiou, Karl A. Maton, Manjula Sharma

Faculty of Social Sciences - Papers (Archive)

Science education research has built a strong body of work on students' understandings but largely overlooked the nature of science knowledge itself. Legitimation Code Theory (LCT), a rapidly growing approach to education, offers a way of analyzing the organizing principles of knowledge practices and their effects on science education. This article focuses on one specific concept from LCT-semantic gravity-that conceptualizes differences in context dependence. The article uses this concept to qualitatively analyze tertiary student responses to a thermal physics question. One result, that legitimate answers must reside within a specific range of context dependence, illustrates how a focus on the …

Conceptualising Technology Use As Social Practice To Research Student Experiences Of Technology In Higher Education, Sue Bennett

Faculty of Social Sciences - Papers (Archive)

The purpose of this paper is to argue for the importance of sociological approaches to educational technology research which can make new advances in the field that complement the existing research base. Such research can address questions of how individuals use technology across different spheres of their lives, including education, and asks what role technology plays in educational institutions and how it interacts academic practices. Research of this kind can tells us much about how we might adopt and adapt technologies from outside education to support teaching and learning. By conceptualising technology use as social practice, rather than as attributes …

Lack Of Quantitative Training Among Early-Career Ecologists: A Survey Of The Problem And Potential Solutions, F. Barraquand, T. G. Ezard, P. Søgaard Jørgensen, Naupaka B. Zimmerman, S. Chamberlain, R. Salguero-Gómez, T. J. Curran, T. Poisot

Biology Faculty Publications

Proficiency in mathematics and statistics is essential to modern ecological science, yet few studies have assessed the level of quantitative training received by ecologists. To do so, we conducted an online survey. The 937 respondents were mostly early-career scientists who studied biology as undergraduates. We found a clear self-perceived lack of quantitative training: 75% were not satisfied with their understanding of mathematical models; 75% felt that the level of mathematics was “too low” in their ecology classes; 90% wanted more mathematics classes for ecologists; and 95% more statistics classes. Respondents thought that 30% of classes in ecology-related degrees should be …

Student Motivations For Studying Online: A Qualitative Study, Melanie K. Henry, Julie Ann Pooley, Maryam Omari

Research outputs 2014 to 2021

The availability of online courses has continued to grow over recent years with more students now turning to online offerings. The flexibility offered through online learning is attractive to prospective students with some of the benefits including reduced costs, and the potential to increase and diversify the student body. Online courses provide the advantage of reaching those who may be ‘too busy’ for traditional study, and offer flexibility through anywhere, anytime access. While these benefits may attract prospective learners to the online environment there remains little empirical evidence for the reasons students actually make the decision to study online over …

Self-Determination Theory And Teacher Instruction: A Positive Partnership For Student Performance And Involvement, Dana Perlman

Faculty of Social Sciences - Papers (Archive)

The purpose of this study was to examine the influence of distinct motivationally-based instructional approaches on student's game performance and involvement. 78 secondary physical education students were taught a unit of volleyball using one in either an autonomy-supportive, controlling or balanced instructional style. Using a pretest and posttest design, students were measured on their game performance and involvement during 20-minute game of volleyball. Data analysis indicated that students engaged in the autonomy-supportive context illustrated significantly higher levels of performance and involvement when compared with the other groups.

Listening To Student Voice: An Evaluation Of Wooglemai Environmental Education Centre’S Youth Environmental Network Eco-Leadership Camp, Peter Andersen

Faculty of Social Sciences - Papers (Archive)

The staff members from the Department of Education and Communities Wooglemai Environmental Educational Centre (WEEC) have hosted an annual residential eco-leadership camp for secondary students since 2011. The name of the camp is ‘Youth Environmental Network Eco-Leadership Camp’ (YEN). The participants have primarily been Year 7 to 10 students from New South Wales government schools. There would normally be thirty students (male and female) attending the YEN, with the duration of the camp being four days and three nights.

The purpose of the YEN camp is to provide an opportunity for students to air their concerns about the state of …

Transitions And Turning Points: How First In Female Students Story Their Transition To University And Student Identity Formation, Sarah Elizabeth O'Shea

Faculty of Social Sciences - Papers (Archive)

The purpose of this article is to explore how one group of students reflect upon their transition into the higher education environment. This qualitative research project followed one group of female undergraduate students as they moved through the first year of study. All of the participants were the first in their family to consider further education and each participated in four semi-structured interviews over one year. Drawing on the conceptual lens of 'turning points', the intent is to provide a 'close-up' analysis of the complex process of identity formation within the university landscape. By revisiting the students at various points …

Project Using Problem Based Learning, Ita Coghlan

Assessment & Feedback Cases

This is a project which is done in groups and submitted at the end of week 6 of the semester. Approximately 30minutes of each lecture during these 6 weeks is spent working on the project and reporting on the group’s progress and getting feedback and guidance from the lecturer. In addition each week the students in each group agree moderation marks for each other. This discussion develops negotiation skills and ensures that students evaluate theirs and others contribution. These are skills that will benefit them in other modules where there are group assignments. At the end of the assignment a …

Debate, Kevin Gaughan

Assessment & Feedback Cases

This is a work in progress. The idea is that a number of topics are selected that are relevant to the subject material, beyond the scope of lectures. Students are assigned to groups and then told which side of the debate they are on. Some sides/opinions are more popular but, like a lawyer, the idea is to present the best case/argument possible, independent of their own beliefs.

Individual Assignments, Susan Mckeever

Assessment & Feedback Cases

A generic programming assignment that gives leeway for student to customise the assignment with their own designs and features.

Formative Feedback, Noel Fitzpatrick

Assessment & Feedback Cases

This assessment method is an opportunity for formative feedback. Students are given an essay title in Week 1, with a 500 word submission due in Week 6 or 7. Feedback is given without a mark.

Examining How Students Make Sense Of Slow-Motion Video, Min Yuan, Nam Ju Kim, Joel Drake, Scott Smith, Victor R. Lee

Instructional Technology and Learning Sciences Faculty Publications

Slow-motion video is starting to appear in science classrooms as a source of data for students to examine. However, seeing important features in such video requires a particular kind of student engagement and supported acts of noticing. This poster reports on an exploratory study of what students noticed and talked about when viewing slow-motion video during a classroom design experiment focused on bodily activity as it relates to motion and animation.